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PARAMEDICS have placed a boy into an induced coma following a play-ground accident this morning.
The boy,10, clashed heads with a nine-year-old girl during a recess soccer game at Overport Primary School.
The school has released a statement saying both students were taken inside and tended to by teachers qualified in Level two first aid.
"Parents were notified and a short time later the girl’s mother came to collect her child followed by the boy’s father. "Later the school was informed that the father and his son were driven to Frankston Hospital by a friend and some time after that the boy was airlifted from Frankston to the Royal Children’s Hospital."
It is believed the boy's condition worsened soon after he arrived home with his father and paramedics were called to the boy’s Frankston South home just after midday.
Intensive care paramedics stabilized the boy before calling in an air ambulance helicopter. Intensive care flight paramedic Jason Hunter said the boy showed classic symptoms of a head injury.
``The boy had been vomiting, was agitated, couldn’t remember what happened, and didn’t know what day, month or year it was,’’ he said.
``Given his condition, we decided to place the boy into an induced coma and take over breathing for him. We used drugs to put him to sleep, so that we could insert a tube down his throat to secure his airway.’’
The boy was flown to the Royal Children’s Hospital in a serious to critical condition.
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